What is wrong with you? What in the F*ck is wrong with you? BUSH is an ideologue!?

This gives me great hope that following the nuclear disaster precipitated by Lefty solipsism and anachronism and ignorance we will return to a sane policy of making sure people actually have to earn their way into an education and this ridiculous baby-sitting experiment we call compulsory education will be abandoned. Exactly the same number of educated people, if not more, will IN ACTUALLY continue to be turned out, but you, who should be drones making things like your Uncle Marx instructed you, rather than fools who have no business involving yourselves in politics, war or international relations.

Iran is going to have a bomb. Terrorism will increase, not decrease, because these people wil it as a normal will to power, not because of some sort of ludicrous equal-and-opposite reaction justified by prior history. Iran was never even colonized for god's sake. Mossadeq was the scion of the Qajari family - the family that had ruled Iran for over 125 years prior to the new parliamentary experiment. The Qajari Army was trained and officer'd by Russia, just as Turkey's had been by Germany. Look at Iraq: do you actually believe Mossadeq was a liberal democrat, or do you think perhaps he was in fact trying to re-establish his family's reign?

No! That kind of thing never happens in the Islamic world!

And Iran's not going for nukes. And Saddam has no WMD. And neither has anything to do with terrorism. And Russia is not an authoritarian country run by KGB agents. And France's revolution didn't destroy all the glory it so obviously loves more than anything else.

Nah. Couldn't be. Because Bush is Hitler!

You are all morons. M O R O N S.

Because the Iranians are just poor, innocent and peaceful creatures, trying to enjoy life. All of their saber rattling is only a timid defense response intended to deter an attack by the evil U.S. Empire, bent on world domination.

Puh-lease!

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today said it is "time for action" on demands for Iran to stop e...

This seems to be just another neo-con con. We have hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of illegals marchimg in our cities, controlled by unseen forces, and we worry about weepingly thin stories like this.

Where is our beautiful country going?

However, the Americans in three years (1942-1945) with most of the physics not known, and before computers, were able to not only invent, but also build two bombs and use them. US Population in 1942 was 135 Million, with few college graduates. http://www.demographia.com/db-uspop1900.htm Of course America did have the advantage of the support of many European refugees such as Fermi.

But today with most of the physics of the bomb a matter of open record, and modern computing, Iran, with a population of 68 Million http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ir.html is so incredibly behind the times and ignorant that they can�t do it in 10 years, despite 60 years of knowledge and improvements in explosives and metallurgy? And even though Iranians could have assistance from Moslems from other nations like America had assistance from European refugees.

So the thesis behind the statements that Iran is far from producing a nuclear bomb is that they are much less capable than Americans 60 years ago because they are inferior.

Juan Cole's ten years until an Iranian nuclear weapon is dated: that was the optimistic estimate before they announced either their intent to go forward with enrichment (a little over a month ago) or their announcement that they're already enriching (yesterday). Can anyone find any serious nuclear weapons expert who's saying that now? As best as I can tell the current best guesses are something like 3 years plus or minus 2.

If we had not invaded we could have stayed committed to Afghanistan, avoided depleting our army, avoided besmirching our reputation with Abu Graib, etc., avoided revealing our weakness in dealing with insurgencies and civil wars, avoided creating a pro-Iranian conservative government in Iraq, avoided killing thousands of Iraqi civilians, avoided ruining our reputation with "Arab street".......how is this much worse?

It seems like the Adminstration hasn't learned anything from the lead-in to Iraq. And with that war already stretching our military rather thin, I'm very concerned by how quickly we seem to be moving toward invading Iran.

So, a country with a bunch of spare cash from oil sales, with lots of time to build things (they've had uranium and plutonium enrichment going on for well over 20 years, according to the IAEA), and a bunch of technical information (from that Pakistan bastard and some former Soviet engineers) are too incompetent to build something that was done in about four years by a country which was in the middle of a total war 60 years ago?

As a guideline, the entire Manhattan Project only cost about $25 billion in 2005 dollars, and that included a lot of expenditures for things the Iranians wouldn't have to reinvent.

Centrifugal enrichment is known to be much more efficient than any of the techniques used by the US during the 1940s.

Am I really the only one here who doesnâ??t feel disgusted and insulted by this transparently insipid scare tactic? Am I the only one who sees this as just another cynical ploy to distract the American public from Bushâ??s domestic disasters and foreign failures? Am I the only one who recognizes this script from the prequel?

It's all about you, isn't it. ;-)

Iranâ??s nuclear ambitions and defiance of the West is almost certainly for domestic political consumption. The legality of Iranâ??s program is questioned by everyone but the mullahs and Coleâ??precisely the same people who claim that the program is about energy rather than weapons.

As Tip O'Niell (I believe) said, "All politics is local". While I'm sure the Mullahs would love to see Bush take one in the kisser, they'd much rather just stay in power. But this:

Likewise, Bush is trying to shore up his base, which is desperately unhappy with the Iraq situation, by rattling sabres at Iran. Bushâ??s poll numbers are so low, often in the mid-30s, that he must have lost part of his base to produce this result. Iran is a great deus ex machina for Bush. Rally around the flag yet again.

That probably explains why Kofi Annan, Jacques Chirac, and Angela Merkel are saying much the same thing.

I dunno about Merkel, but I'll bet Chirac's poll numbers are pretty near Bush's right now, and Kofi would give his left nut for some credibility after all the corruption scandals he's been tacked to...

And if everyone in China jumped at the same time, the earth would spin off its axis into the sun.

Am I really the only one here who doesn't feel disgusted and insulted by this transparently insipid scare tactic? Am I the only one who sees this as just another cynical ploy to distract the American public from Bush's domestic disasters and foreign failures? Am I the only one who recognizes this script from the prequel?